£8m star was too good for QPR - and proved it every time he played | OneFootball

QPR broke their transfer record to sign Loic Remy in 2013, after a fantastic spell despite relegation, he went on to star for Newcastle and Chelsea.

Looking to secure their Premier League status for another season in 2013, Queens Park Rangers broke their transfer record in January to secure the ambitious signing of French striker Loic Remy.

The forward joined from Ligue 1 giants Marseille, and went on to have a fantastic impact at Loftus Road, although the 2012/13 campaign did ultimately end with QPR being relegated back to the Championship.

Going on to have success at Newcastle before becoming a Premier League champion with Chelsea, Remy was too good for the R's, and supporters will always wonder if they would have seen more of him, had they avoided relegation in 2013.

Ambitious signing provided goals at Loftus Road

The French striker became QPR's club-record signing back in January 2013, joining in a shock £8 million switch from Ligue 1 outfit Marseille and agreeing a four-and-a-half-year deal on reported weekly wages of £80,000.

While Remy had scored just once in the first half of the 2012/13 campaign, his 22 goals and eight assists the season prior gave QPR supporters a big reason to be excited as they looked to stay in the Premier League.

And just 14 minutes into his debut against West Ham, he opened his account for the club in a 1-1 draw. He continued to star for the R's, scoring a further five Premier League goals as QPR slumped to their eventual relegation; part of the reason for that relegation was perhaps Remy's lack of "meaningful" goals, with only two of the six goals he scored coming in winning efforts.

Remy was a fan favourite, though, and his stunning strike against Wigan is always remembered as one of the biggest moments of quality that supporters had seen at Loftus Road that year.

However, QPR were never going to be able to have a player of Remy's pedigree and quality in the Championship after such a successful short stint in the Premier League.

With the forward deserving of Premier League football, the 30-cap former France international made a loan switch to Newcastle United, where he went on to continue starring in the top-flight.

Loic Remy was too good for QPR - He became a Premier League champion

Frighteningly quick off the mark, strong in the air and blessed with natural goalscoring instincts, Remy was among the finest frontmen in the Premier League during his time with Newcastle and showed exactly why QPR were desperate to bring the Frenchman to England in the first place back in 2013.

Remy scored 14 times for Newcastle as he spent the 2013/14 season on loan in the North East, carrying on what was a trend of fantastic strikers at St James' Park in the early 2010s, taking the mantle from Papiss Cisse and Demba Ba.

And Remy would follow the same path as the latter, as he made the switch to Jose Mourinho's Chelsea in 2014, where he would become a Premier League champion.

Remy was very much the backup option behind Diego Costa at Stamford Bridge, and the argument can certainly be made that he may have been better off staying at Loftus Road and taking on a talismanic role as they returned to the Premier League.

However, trophies speak louder than anything in football, and Remy will always be able to call himself a Premier League winner.

Remy left Chelsea permanently in 2017 to sign for Spanish side Las Palmas and later went on to play for Lille, Rizespor and Adana Demirspor before retiring last year at the age of 36.

During the later stages of his career, he still showed that his quality was still there, but never managed to rekindle his previous form, failing to ever score more than 10 league goals in a single campaign after his loan spell with Newcastle.

It is impossible to ignore how good he was in a QPR shirt, and it is very easy to see that the Frenchman was simply too good to be playing in a side battling among the relegation places.